This month’s Core Vocab word is phrēn, plural phrenes, [φρήν, φρένες] which is given the definition ‘physical localization of the thūmos‘.[1] As a reminder, the definition of thūmos is ‘heart, spirit’ (designates realm of consciousness, of rational and emotional functions); we have already looked at some passages relating to thūmos: you can find the post here. In modern English we refer to the mind as residing in the brain, and emotion is… Read more
Creon, Chorus and the Guard Students from the 1st High School and 2nd High School of Nafplio are participating in the Antigone project in which high school students from the UK, Netherlands, Greece, Lebanon, and the US read and act parts of Sophocles’ Antigone. The project is ongoing and each school from England, Netherlands and Greece is working through the final recording. Today, we would like to introduce the students from Greece.… Read more
Dear fellow readers, As you are enjoying the hot days of summer, you are invited to take a seat under the shade and read the Book Club selection and discuss it with your fellow readers to cool down! We will be reading Hesiod’s Works and Days, section: ‘Pandora’, lines 53–105; and Theogony, section: ‘Prometheus: Pandora and the Lineage of Women’, lines 570–616. Please join the discussion in the forum, here,… Read more
We are pleased to share this segment in the series on reading Homeric epic in ancient Greek. In each installment we read, translate, and discuss a small passage in the original Greek in the most accessible way. If you’ve ever dreamed of reading Homer in the original, here is your chance to do so with teachers who have spent a lifetime thinking about this poetry. With their guidance even new… Read more
We were pleased to welcome back Maria G. Xanthou, University of Leeds, for a discussion on Pindar’s Pythian 3 and 9. Everyone is invited to view the recording below, or on our YouTube channel. To prepare for this conversation, participants might like to read the following focus passages translated by Maria G. Xanthou, available in a PDF handout: Pindar Pythian 3.101 ff. Pindar Isthmian 8.56 Homer Odyssey 24.58–73 Pindar Pythian… Read more